Baked pike in foil in the oven to the festive table

Kitchen appliances and utensils: oven, baking sheet, foil, knife, cutting board.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. We peel two or three onions and two or three carrots. Wash the vegetables thoroughly and cut into half rings. One lemon cut into slices.
   
2. We wash the pike under running water and remove the scales from it in a way convenient for you. Cut off the fins and tail, and leave the head untouched. After we gut the fish, we take out the insides and carefully cut the gills. Wash thoroughly from the inside.
   
3. Season to taste with salt and black pepper inside and out. We leave to marinate the pike for 15 minutes.
   
4. After time, we make shallow cuts with a knife across the pike on both sides. Between the incisions there must be a gap of at least two centimeters.
   
5. In a small deep bowl, mix chopped onions and 50 grams of mayonnaise. It is advisable that it be bold.
   
6. We measure out a large sheet of foil so that a whole pike can fit on it, and cover it with a suitable baking sheet. We spread half the onion with mayonnaise on the foil, it will play the role of a pillow for fish.
   
7. Then mix 50 grams of mayonnaise with chopped carrots and spread half of this mixture on a pillow of onions. Water the substrate on the foil with 30 grams of vegetable oil.
   
8. Mix the remaining onions and carrots and start with the mixture of pike.
   
9. In the cuts that we previously made in fish, we insert slices of lemon.
   
10. Gently transfer the fish to a pillow of vegetables, and wrap it with foil.
    
11. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. When the oven has warmed up, put a baking tray with a pike in it and bake for 50 minutes. After the time has passed, remove the pan from the oven, unfold the foil and put the fish back for another 15 minutes.
    
12. When the dish is ready, put it on a beautiful plate, decorate and serve.
    

Decoration methods and serving options

• Such a dish is served exclusively hot and whole, but we carve it already at guests. If you want to cook and serve the pike in portions, then cut it into steaks before cooking.
• If you marinate the fish in a sauce with lemon juice or vinegar, then it will get a good sourness.
• If you do not want to deal with small bones, choose a larger fish, it has fewer bones.

Video recipe

A similar recipe for cooking pike in the oven in foil is shown on the video. From here you can also get ideas for baking such a delicious fish.

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